Sean Alma
speaker
436 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 May
Sean Alma’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Currently, the rules differ between importers and refiners, but neither need to have that much on hand.
Energy Minister Chris Bowen yesterday said the government stockpile would prioritise regional needs and those of other essential uses such as heavy transport and mining in the event of another crisis.
The package will be part of the federal budget due to be released next Tuesday night.
Yeah, I mean, the payments across the board are certainly not targeted.
And that's part of the problem in fiscal policy at the moment.
What else do we know about the budget?
There'll be changes to the 50% capital gains tax discount.
Exactly how it works is still an unknown, but broadly, a new regime that provides for the discount only after the effect of inflation is taken into account is set to be introduced.
There's been speculation that the government will introduce a minimum tax rate on trusts of 30%.
That's covering thousands of small businesses or probably hundreds of thousands of small businesses and families, though farmers would be exempt.
We know that the fringe benefit tax exemption for electric vehicles will stay for the next financial year and then it will be rolled back.
Of course, we've had the fuel excise.
That's been cut at least until July.
The budget, of course, comes down next Tuesday night at 7.30pm.
I'm sure Ausbiz and Fear and Greed will all be covering it, as always, Juliet.
That helped push Brent crude back below $108 a barrel.
That pushed the energy companies like Woodside, Santos and Ampol lower.
Financials did well with the Reserve Bank rate hike on Tuesday considered a positive for lenders.
All four big banks ended up between about 2.5% and 3.5%.
The materials sector also outperformed.
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